Boot Scrapers

Here I am demonstrating the use of these old fashioned boot scraper which can be found outside very old stone houses and stores and pubs in older sections of every town and village around here. These 2 different styled boot scrapers are located in Ely which we visited yesterday. They were used to obviously scrape your boots before going inside. I think that it would have had something to do with the damp and wet weather which probably causes a lot of mud! Now that we have paved roads, it is not as bad, but still muddy in grassy areas when it has rained, but I am guessing that in the olden days when the roads were all dirt, there was probably a considerable amount of mud!